Pro-gaming team banned: "Too good to be girls"

An all-female pro-gaming team has reportedly been disqualified from a Dota 2 competition because they're too good at the game. Organisers at the recent Girls Wars SEA event felt that one of the members of team Dolls plays the game "like a boy", and has kicked the whole team out of the contest.

[CourierSix]

Wow...this is pathetic, are we really doing crap like this? 'plays the game "like a boy"' Seriously? You know I bet if this article gets approved I'll get heaps of dislikes but it needs to be said. As gamers we should be shutting down this chauvinistic attitude. Minority or not this is appalling. Why can guys be the only 'good' gamers?

[caseh]

You need to read into it a little more.

They released a statement where the girl in question has openly admitted her boyfriend plays on her account and how her play style in that match wasn't consistent with how she usually plays.

There were actually a few reasons that led to the teams DQ, not just that.

[Gazondaily]

I thought as much. I knew I shouldn't have taken the title at face value.

[Guitardr85]

@couriersix

Yeah, you have to read the article. I was upset until I started reading a little deeper. It appears this was an all girls gaming expo to begin with so they weren't only kicked out because they were female. Apparently, "playing like a boy" was utilized (probably as a bad choice of words) as there were quite a few weird things going on with this team (i.e. not turning over important gaming data, dramatic change in play styles, and confirmation that one of the girls boyfriends had used her account multiple times, possibly supporting the fact that her boyfriend was playing instead of her, thus "playing like a boy". The disqualification kinda makes sense after reading through it.

[Lord_Sloth]

Let's just blame DotA for this for now.

Actually, let's blame the language barrier, as Fireseed pointed out below.

[Magicite]

thats the most retarded reason they could come up. this is DOTA, not some online shooter.

[Bdub2000]

Clearly you didn't read the article... More often than not, these huge debates get started because of the Article Title, not the actual content.

Read the article, then make an educated statement.

[SpiralTear]

Screw this tournament. If these players are good at games and they're in a game tournament, they shouldn't be punished for being really good at it, especially if it's for a lousy, stupid, ridiculous reason like that.

[Spenok]

Far too many people don't read articles... Read it, and you will understand.

Since most people don't read articles, and still comment on them, YET KNOW people put misleading/sensationalized article titles I have to ask. Why even comment on them and make yourself look foolish?

[SpiralTear]

Fun fact: If you look at when I posted the first comment, you'd understand that that update was not there at the time I posted it. I read the whole story last night, and while the reasoning behind this decision is different than the article originally listed, the tournament owners are still at fault.

If there was a breach of ruling and there was an outside party involved, and the tournament owners knew it prior to letting this go (which by the context, they did), they shouldn't have let them play at all instead of letting this brew like that.

Why even comment on my comment if you don't know the context and circumstances in which I posted it, where I did not have information then that we do now? Think about that for a while.

[EdoubleD]

Come on...we don't need something like this right now.
Goddamn tourneys setting us back.

[Spenok]

As I, and several others have said above.... read the article.

[Scatpants]

Wow, since playing a video game doesn't require any physical ability they are basically saying a girl isn't smart enough to play like that.

[Wni0]

because dota takes what 60 apm?

[Ocsta]

Huh?

[Fireseed]

Alright let me inform everyone here of what happened and discern the bs that the article is spewing from the actual truth. First off the manner in which the event organizers spoke of the subject was pathetic and came off as extremely sexist. True. But it seems that it was simply because of grammar, trust me this guy can barely speak a coherent sentence of english.

"yes that our mistake because not check this . will fix for next season. sorry from our side. and we already what we can do. hope all of u understand us thanks you"

However it turns out one of the girls actually had someone subbing for them. Between early game and mid game their APM, GPM, and general strategy COMPLETELY changed. And when asked to appear on Skype or raidcall (as per the rules) they refused and were disqualified.

Tl;dr

The event organizer has awful english and reported that the team broke the rules but came off as sexist in his statement. So in turn people blew it up as more than it was to blame the event organizer for enforcing the rules.

I hate sexist crap in the gaming community but falsely convicting someone for ones own benefit is even more reprehensible.

[EdoubleD]

I see, I take my comment back then.

[pasta_spice]

That seems like a strange set up for a tournament. Anyone could cheat if you cant see the actual player. Is there a reason it was all done online, instead of in an actual tournament arena?

[Fireseed]

Well people have just started to realize how lucrative hosting DOTA 2 tournaments are. So I imagine someone from a foreign country wanted a tournament to make some money, but didn't necessarily have the means to host one as properly as an event like this should have been. Looking at their official site page and everything it all seems a little "slapped together"

[Findingcrybabies]

Thats pretty messed hahaha. I will say though I have played with quite a few girls in my time...some of them very good. To the point I was impressed. I have known 2 girls that could perform in competitive games and hang as well. Never seen one on my team or another (no matter how much hype) that laid waste to everyone. I'm not saying its impossible, I've just never seen it.

There are lots of "good" girls. Never seen one that was top 10 or anything though.

[bsmith61]

I feel like something may have been taken out of context somewhere along the line

[il-JumperMT]

Bwahaha Discrimination against Male and no one bats an eye.

Where are male only tournaments?

[SoCalledMe]

Wait what , International , biggest e-sports tournament , biggest prize that is , 10 mil , also its a Dota 2 tournament so there ya go

[aliengmr]

Because there isn't a need for them.

[ShaunCameron]

And there isn't a need for them because virtually all of them are founded by men.

[TWB]

We should be more concerned about ridiculous stuff like this than paranoid idealogy stuff that certain extrimists like to point out.

You know ? About stuff that actually matters.

[aliengmr]

The title really should better reflect the truth of the matter. Calling attention to stuff like this is fine, but when the truth is lost in translation, its only fair that title reflect that. As it is, its needlessly inflammatory.

It really helps no one.

[Bdxxacjkfs]

Fork those fascist sh!ts!